Wardrobe or show-case.



PATENTED MAY 24, 1904. s. w. BONSALL. WARDROBE 0R snow CASE.

APPLICATION FILED EBB. 18} 1904.

I0 MODEL.

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Patented May 24, 1904 I PATENT OFFI E,

SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, or NEW-YORK, Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters iatezit No; 760,725, dated. May 24, 1904.

Application filed February 18, 1904.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State, of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wardrobes or Show-Cases, of which the following is a specification. V

This improvement has particular relation to means whereby certain forms of closets and wardrobes are made convenient and available for the suspension of various articles, and particularly of garments and the like, While permitting such easy-access and full inspection as would otherwise not be possible.

The improvement is applicable in some of itsforms to use in wardrobe-trunks, showcases, and similar devices.)

.This improvement is particularly useful in making convenient and available for .the suspension of various articles those spaces which would otherwise be so low as to be unsuited to this purpose. Wherev a closet is so loW that a man or woman is obliged to lean over in order to look into it, it is not convenient for the suspension of garments and the like onaccount of the difficulty in picking out the particular clothingw desired at any time and because the user must either stoop down in order to see the hooks or must grope about for the hook required. I a g In my United States Patent No. 642,075 I have shown a device applicable to any closet which permits the clothingto be drawn forward into sight when any'particular, garment is desired and also facilitates the hanging up and inclosing of garments in a:manner to preserve the desired folds and prevent mussing.

This device is particularly suitable to deepand narrow closets for wardrobes, but is not so useful in connectlon with wide and shallow, closets.

v The present improvement will be found particularly advantageous in those spaces which ,are otherwise too low for convenient suspension of the garments and are too shallow and wide to develop, the full convenience of the 7 device describedin my aforesaid Letters Patent. There are many instances where a space of} this kind can be very conveniently com-. blned with a sideboard or bureau, with or Serial No. 194,304. (No model.)

without a mirror above the space in question,

and hitherto such spaces have not been capable of employment for hanging garments conveniently.. s I The present improvement is applicable'not only-in the particular cases above setout, but

in many other localities where other forms of suspending means are not convenient.

ments in the accompanying drawings, wherei Figure l is. a perspective View of a closet opened so. as to show my lmproved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a partial view of a slmilar closet or wardrobe, showing a modified form of hanger:

support; and Fig. 3 is a similar view showing still another modification. p

' Any convenient form of wardrobe or closet is shown at 1, the same being preferably provided with a door or doors 2, which may be of any desired character. In my LettersPatjent above named'the garments are shown hung with their width at right angles to the direction in which they can be moved in and out of the closet; but the present improvement in its preferred form involves the use of a hangersupport so placed that the garments can be drawn out of the'w'ardrobe in the direction of their greatest width.

The specific embodiment of the-inventionwhich is shown in the drawings comprises one or more standards 3, pivoted near the bottom and provided near the top witha hanger-support 4, upon which garment-hangers 5 are adapted to slide.

It is to be understood that while I have shown in the drawings an apparatus fastened to the sides of the closetor receptacle this invention covers a device of the character claimed however mounted and wherever fastened within such T receptacle.

In the'modjification illustrated iii Fig. 1 two i standardsarefen'iployed, each pivoted, as at .6,

to the bottolnof opposite sides of the wardrobe 1. The horizontal cross bar or rod 4 is fixed to both standards near their upper ends and joins them firmly together, so as toform with them a single rocking device. Any nui r berof hangerssuch, for instance, as those shown at 5-may be suspended upon the rod 4, and I prefer to combine with theseone or more presser-bars 7, which are designed for confining the garments substantially as set forth in my prior Letters Patent No. 661,947. As shown in Fig. 1, two sets of hangers may be used, each with its own presser-bar.

In order to preserve constant the practical parallelism of the two standards 3 and to keep the rod 4 always parallel to itself when pulled forward, I prefer to provide on each of the standards wings or extensions 8, intended to lie flat along the inner surfaces of the sides of the wardrobe, and so prevent all twisting of the standards.

In the preferred form shown the appliances for preventing twist and preserving parallelism are further perfected by providing slots 9, extending along the extensions 8, which slots are struck on the arcs of circles whose centers are at the pivots 6. Through these slots project pins 10, preferably flanged, which may serve at once to hold the wings or extensions 8 always close to the sides of the wardrobe and act as stops to properly limit the extent to which the bar or rod 4 can be drawn forward.

As clearly shown in the drawings, the hangers are placed so as to support the garments with their planes at right angles to the front of the wardrobe and are preferably arranged so that they can be slid apart or together along the supporting-rod 4. This arrangement is particularly suitable to those closets which are not much more than deep enough to accommodate the width of the clothing and are at the same time wide enough to permit a large numberof garments to be placed flat the one on the other from side to side of the closet.

In any form of closet, however, and whatever the kind of hangers used this device will be most useful when for any reason. it is not convenient to enter or look into the space where the garments are hung. In such a case access is very easily had to all the garments at once by using the device shown in the drawings. All that is necessary is to draw the rod 4 forward until it is brought sufficiently in front of the edge of the .closet to bring the garments into easy view and reach. The length of the slot 9 is so calculated as to secure and stop the whole rocking support at the proper distance in front of the doorway.

It is to. be observed that thepivots 6 are best placed about half-way between a vertical plane through the rod 4 in the extreme backward position (shown in Fig. 1) and a similar plane through said red when drawn into its extreme forward position. By adopting. this arrangement the level of the rod is the same in both extreme positions, and the weight of the whole rocking device and of the garments carried thereby tends to preserve each extreme position into which the device is brought that is to say, gravity tends to press the extension 8 against the stop 10 and keep the rod 4 in the position shown in Fig. 1, and the same effect will be produced when the rod 4 is drawn forward until the rear end of the slot 9 comes against the pin 10. By making the standards 3 of proper length the lift of the rod 4 during passage back or forth maybe made as small as desired, thus making the effort required to move the rod 4 very slight.

My invention is not necessarily confined to devices wherein movable hangers are used nor to any specific position or form of hangers.

As shown in Fig. 2, my invention is not necessarily confined to a device employing two pivoted standards. hen a single standard 3 is used, as shown in said figure, the rod 4 will be comparatively short and the pin 10 will be flanged so as to surely prevent the standard 3 from bending away from the side of the wardrobe.

In Fig. 3 is shown still another modification of the single standard. Here the wing or extension is made of such an area that the standard becomes a fiat base-board or presser-board 3, against which clothing may be pressed fiat by the presser-bar 7 as called for in my aforesaid patent, No. 661,947. In this form I prefer to employ a retaining-piece 11 under the head of the pivot-screw 6 to cooperate with the flange on the pin 10 in maintaining proper position of the board 3.

Obviously the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 3 are especially fitted for use in a restricted space.

A great varietyv of changes may be made in this invention without departing from its spirit and scope, and I am not to be understood as limiting myself to the details herein shown and described.

What I claim is- 1. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, a hanger-support, hangers suspended crosswise of said support, a standard for said hanger-support pivoted near the bottom to permit the support to rock forward at right angles to its length, an extension-guide on said standard lying against the side of said receptacle, and a stop limiting forward movement of the hangers when brought outside of said receptacle; substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, a horizontal rod extending from side to side of said receptacle, hangers suspended crosswise on said rod, so as to slide thereon, a standard at each end of said horizontal rod pivoted near the bottom to permit the rod to rock forward at right angles to its length, an extensionrguide on one standard lying against the side of said receptacle, and a stop limiting forward movement of the hangers when brought outside of said receptacle; substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, a standard pivoted therein near its bottom, a hanger-support fixed on said standard and extending at right angles to itsown directlon of movement, an'extenslon-guide on said standard for preventing lateral twist, and

angles to its length; an extension-guide on said standard lying fiat against the side of said receptacle, and a stop limiting forward movement of the'hanger-support when brought 5 outside of said receptacle; substantially as described. I

I SEYMOUR w. BONSALL.

Witnesses:

H. S. MAOIAYEQ FLORENCE PICK. 

